• kamenLady.@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They are much more complex, than people know. The one at the bottom is even carrying money with it

  • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Those little fuckers will destroy yr garden if you let them.

    You can leave beer out in a cooking pot and they’ll climb the walls then drown in it - but I don’t drink and don’t want to buy beer

    Sooooo you can capture 4 or 5 of them, cut them in half and impale them on skewers and line your garden Vlad-like and that will, I shit you not, scare the rest from coming in.

    Unfortunately, slug eggs are super fucking tiny and are just left random-where in the soil, so there’s nothing short of nuking the ground that we can do to get rid of them…so the staking continues.

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Don’t know about that bit buuuut terrible to step on, in the middle of the night. in the grass, with bare feet.

    …no bueno

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I remember salting those things with my grandpa in his garden when I was a kid.

    I also remember UCSC students cooking and eating them after the school adopted the banana slug mascot.

  • PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Another interesting fact about these, their mucus has a mild anesthetic affect and will numb your tongue if you lick it.

  • Malgas@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    As someone who is from Or*n, rofl. My parents even have a story about their dog from when I was a baby freaking out about a banana slug while we were camping.